Steve McCall (drummer)

Stephen "Steve" McCall ( born September 30, 1933, Chicago, † May 25, 1989 there ), was an American jazz drummer of the Creative.

McCall started playing blues and mainstream jazz, before he began in 1961 to play with Muhal Richard Abrams. He was one of the founders of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, was a member of a trio with Fred Anderson and recorded with Joseph Jarman Song for You (1964 ), the first recordings of the AACM. Like some other AACM musician, he went in 1967 to Paris, where he remained until 1970, was involved in documentaries and came into contact with European free jazz of Gunter Hampel. At the same time, he worked in the groups of Marion Brown, Anthony Braxton and Roscoe Mitchell. In the early 1970s he founded with Fred Hopkins and Henry Threadgill, the group Air, with which he appeared ten years, and numerous plates presented. Then he played with the octet of David Murray and Cecil Taylor.

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